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Fox News PR Used Fake Accounts To Push Back At Negative Commenters[W:19]

CycloneWanderer said:
Personally, I think it would be hilarious if the OP was a false poster hired by the administration. ALL THE FAKE POSTERS POSTING ABOUT EACH OTHER!!! That would be some Inception-style stuff right there.

On a serious note, isn't that practice pretty old-hat and common now?
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Among news organizations? Nope. It's something we might have come to expect from Fox, but no reputable news organization does it besides them.
 
CycloneWanderer said:
Conspiracy time (user equipped "+1 Tinfoil Hat of Cunning"):

head of joaquin has 11,534 posts since Oct 2012. Assuming that he joined on Oct. 1st, it has been 386 days since he joined this site. That is near 30 posts per day for just over an entire year. That's an awful lot of posts. Are you fake? I DON'T KNOW WHO TO TRUST ANYMORE!!!

/sarcasm
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You're on to me. But this thread isn't about me, it's about Fox, a purported news organization that has been exposed as promoting fake accounts on the internet to spread agitprop in its favor.
 
head of joaquin said:
You're on to me. But this thread isn't about me, it's about Fox, a purported news organization that has been exposed as promoting fake accounts on the internet to spread agitprop in its favor.
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... that's exactly what a fake poster would say.

/sarcasm (or is it :confused:)

on a serious note, I have gotten PM's from certain posters advertising for specific liberal news websites. I'm not so convinced that other news media don't engage in this sort of activity. I'd be more surprised if they didn't at this point.
 
head of joaquin said:
Fox News PR Used Fake Accounts To Push Back At Negative Commenters

Why am I not surprised that this paranoid network uses shills on poltical forums.
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Questionable excerpts from your link:

(1)- "Folkenflik reports that Fox's "PR staffers" would post "pro-Fox rants" in the comments sections of negative and even neutral blog posts written about the network."

You do realize that such unverified evidence as this would never hold up in a court of law; in fact it would never even get past a grand jury into any courtroom other than the kangaroo variety_

So in the interest of fairness would you know of any reliable source that might identify these "Fox PR staffers" so that we might verify their existence as well as their credibility?

(2)- "One former staffer recalled using twenty different aliases to post pro-Fox rants. Another had one hundred. Several employees had to acquire a cell phone thumb drive to provide a wireless broadband connection that could not be traced back to a Fox News or News Corp account."

If measures were taken to ensure these "wireless broadband connections could not be traced back to a Fox News or News Corp account"; then would it be safe to assume no such connections were ever actually traced back to Fox?

Surely you can understand why we can't be expected to rely solely on unnamed "PR staffers" as the only evidence of the claims of a far-left blog such as Media Matters which considers Rupert Murdoch to be a threat to its political agenda_

Without verification this is nothing more than "hear-say" which only a gullible ideologue who desperately wants very badly to believe a negative report about a hated enemy would accept as factual evidence_

Seriously Hoj__What if I sited Rush Limbaugh as a source with no other validation of his claim, other than "unnamed sources"__see my point?!

In the future you should keep this in mind anytime you start a thread that doesn't begin with "In My Opinion"
 
CycloneWanderer said:
... that's exactly what a fake poster would say.

/sarcasm (or is it :confused:)

on a serious note, I have gotten PM's from certain posters advertising for specific liberal news websites. I'm not so convinced that other news media don't engage in this sort of activity. I'd be more surprised if they didn't at this point.
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Well, you're welcome to write a book about it and if it's true, they are the more to blame. However, it's already been shown that Fox engages in internet deception, which is par for the course for this dubious news organization.
 
Empirica said:
Questionable excerpts from your link:

(1)- "Folkenflik reports that Fox's "PR staffers" would post "pro-Fox rants" in the comments sections of negative and even neutral blog posts written about the network."

You do realize that such unverified evidence as this would never hold up in a court of law; in fact it would never even get past a grand jury into any courtroom other than the kangaroo variety_

So in the interest of fairness would you know of any reliable source that might identify these "Fox PR staffers" so that we might verify their existence as well as their credibility?

(2)- "One former staffer recalled using twenty different aliases to post pro-Fox rants. Another had one hundred. Several employees had to acquire a cell phone thumb drive to provide a wireless broadband connection that could not be traced back to a Fox News or News Corp account."

If measures were taken to ensure these "wireless broadband connections could not be traced back to a Fox News or News Corp account"; then would it be safe to assume no such connections were ever actually traced back to Fox?

Surely you can understand why we can't be expected to rely solely on unnamed "PR staffers" as the only evidence of the claims of a far-left blog such as Media Matters which considers Rupert Murdoch to be a threat to its political agenda_

Without verification this is nothing more than "hear-say" which only a gullible ideologue who desperately wants very badly to believe a negative report about a hated enemy would accept as factual evidence_

Seriously Hoj__What if I sited Rush Limbaugh as a source with no other validation of his claim, other than "unnamed sources"__see my point?!

In the future you should keep this in mind anytime you start a thread that doesn't begin with "In My Opinion"
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So you've read the book and checked the sources?
 
pbrauer said:
How does this silence opposing views?
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It doesn't. Many on the right seem to feel that criticizing them or pointing out their BS = "attempting to silence them." It's an intimidation tactic to deflect criticism.
 
head of joaquin said:
So you've read the book and checked the sources?
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No I have not__Are you saying "Fox's PR staffers" mentioned in the link you posted are identified in "the book"?

If they indeed are, you should have no problem locating a reliable source to confirm this and validate your claim_

It is not my job to locate evidence of your claims Joaquin, simply to examine those which you provide for accuracy_
 
Empirica said:
No I have not__Are you saying "Fox's PR staffers" mentioned in the link you posted are identified in "the book"?

If they indeed are, you should have no problem locating a reliable source to confirm this and validate your claim_

It is not my job to locate evidence of your claims Joaquin, simply to examine those which you provide for accuracy_
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I'm curious as to how long these Fox haters are going to continue masterbating over these alligations, which took place 13 year ago?
 
Gipper said:
Oh, a book makes it accurate. Gotcha. Let me introduce you to another factual book then:

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Read up.
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I had that t-shirt once. I'm serious.
 
Grim17 said:
I'm curious as to how long these Fox haters are going to continue masterbating over these alligations, which took place 13 year ago?
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Masterbating?? LOL Why does this allegation bother you?
 
Grim17 said:
I'm curious as to how long these Fox haters are going to continue masterbating over these alligations, which took place 13 year ago?
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Pssst: they were just exposed now. Embarrassing for you, apparently. How do you watch a news show that produced faked blog posts?
 
Grim17 said:
I'm curious as to how long these Fox haters are going to continue masterbating over these alligations, which took place 13 year ago?
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Sometimes when delusional people are desperately searching for dirt, they can't be too picky about what decade they dig in_
 
head of joaquin said:
Pssst: they were just exposed now. Embarrassing for you, apparently. How do you watch a news show that produced faked blog posts?
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Sorry Hoj but unnamed "Fox PR staffers" simply doesn't fly in the evidence department, you silly boy_ :giggle1:

So nothing has actually been "exposed" until you provide the identity of those unnamed witnesses I previously requested_

And everybody knows that without verifiable evidence, these are nothing more than unsubstantiated allegations__bye-bye!
 
head of joaquin said:
Pssst: they were just exposed now. Embarrassing for you, apparently. How do you watch a news show that produced faked blog posts?
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Oh but heck,,it was the video Dudes! That despicable video,,,,,,,,,,not terrorists! On every Sunday talk show,,,,,,but,,really now,,what difference doe's it really make? lol
 
This just in: Fox hates America

Originally reported to HoJ from the source of a friend of a friend who does the nails of his cousin's brother's wife

Source - substantiated. Roll with it.
 
Hiram said:
And if it is really true? Compared to the O using the IRS Power to quell an entire Political movement,,,seems no more than a Mouse flatulent! Oh but rant on ye MSNBC fans,,rant on..
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From the OP link as posted by head of Joaquin:
"Here's an interesting bit of Fox News skullduggery from David Folkenflik's new book on Rupert Murdoch's media empire, courtesy of Media Matters:"

I checked out Joaquin's link and so far the only "evidence" of this allegation is the word of unnamed Fox PR staffers_

Despite repeated requests, neither Joaquin or any other liberal has been able to post a link identifying these witnesses_

Without knowing exactly who these unknown sources are, we're unable to determine their credibility or even if they exist_

We must also keep in mind this was reported by Huffington according to information courtesy of Media Matters no less_

So no one should be surprised that no identification of the unknown sources has yet to turn up__This reeks of bogus!
 
Hiram said:
And if it is really true? Compared to the O using the IRS Power to quell an entire Political movement,,,seems no more than a Mouse flatulent! Oh but rant on ye MSNBC fans,,rant on..
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Somebody doesn't understand what a news organization is and what it's not supposed to do (make up fake news)
 
Hiram said:
And if it is really true? Compared to the O using the IRS Power to quell an entire Political movement,,,seems no more than a Mouse flatulent! Oh but rant on ye MSNBC fans,,rant on..
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Meaningless, pointless, off topic deflecting non sequitur.
 
head of joaquin said:
Somebody doesn't understand what a news organization is and what it's not supposed to do (make up fake news)
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And somebody else doesn't understand that unnamed witnesses are not considered reliable sources_

Think about it Joaquin; what would you say if you read an article from the Free Republic which told you:

"Here's an interesting bit of White House skullduggery from Sean Hannity's new book on The Obama's sex life, courtesy of Stormfront!"

"According to unnamed White House staffers, Barack and Michelle throw regular Saturday night bisexual orgies!"

Would you actually accept this as fact with absolutely no way of verifying the eyewitnesses story, motivations or even their existence?!
 
Grim17 said:
I'm surprised this isn't front page news at the NY Times... Far left author, of Fox-hating far left website, makes allegations that are 13 years old. That usually qualifies as big news in the main stream media...

Of course to the rest of us, it reeks of pathetic, partisan desperation by the left to silence opposing views.
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This thread isn't about the New York Times. Do you have nothing on topic to say?
 
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